Hi everybody.

My name's Felipe Ortega. I'm Telecommunications Engineer and Associate Professor in the InfoTec Department of the Alfonso X El Sabio University at Madrid, Spain.

I'm currently working in a research project for my Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the Rey Juan Carlos University. I would like to analyze and work towards better solutions for massive distribution of media contents among a widespread volunteer users comunity.

I think Wikimedia projects are a very good example of initiatives that could get advantage from this research. To start with, I would like to concentrate in the specific problem of massive distribution of, let's say, Wikipedia contents. Every volunteer could contribute with a bit of disk space in order to build some kind of grid computing infrastructure for global access to it's contents.

To start with this work, I would be very grateful if you could send me as much iformation as you can about the present Wikipedia servers configuration. I've retrieved a lot of data from meta.wikimedia.org, and I've updated the overall system scheme, but I haven't found anything about important info like, for example, the SQUID caché configuration content load balancing.

Thanks a lot for your aid.

Regards,

Felipe Ortega.

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